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The United Nations of the World 


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THE NATION OF THE SEA 
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THE UNITED NATIONS OF THE WORLD 

BY 

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PREFACE. 


The object of this book is to offer, in a sound, prac¬ 
tical, and logical form, a solution of the problem of 
world government. It is in the form of a Constitu¬ 
tion, for the government of all nations, carefully 
planned and worked out, in such form that it is ready 
for immediate use, with only such things said before 
and after it, as v/ere considered absolutely necessary 
to convey a clear conception of its plans, and to help 
individuals and nations toward its speedy adoption. 


“Let me live in a house by the side of the road 
And be a friend to man.”— Foss . 


CONTENTS 


A Neutralized World. 17 

Unity.25 

Youth.29 

Holidays.34 

Constitution for the United Nations of the World 37 

Facts. 60 

Patriots.62 

Bible Verses About Peace Applied to Nations . 64 

War.66 

Peace.67 


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THE NATION OF THE SEA 
OR 

THE UNITED NATIONS OF THE WORLD 















A NEUTRALIZED WORLD. 


This article, by J. Russell Smith, is used here by permission, as it 
appeared in the August (1917) issue of the American Review of Reviews. 
It is used here because it furnishes such an excellent introduction to the 
definite plans of this book, and so completely expresses the sentiment 
of a large part of the peoples of the world, although the author did not 
know, at the time he wrote this article, that this book was being pre¬ 
pared. 

The United States is —so we say. Not long ago we 
said the United States are. The change in thought 
came rather quickly. Economic changes made it 
come. We are now greatly in need of similar change 
in thought whereby we shall think in world terms. 
As we have recently added national thinking to state 
thinking, so we need a geographic imagination that 
we may add to ourselves world thinking, world feel¬ 
ing, and world acting. 

The war is making us think that way, whether we 
will or no. It has shown us that on the economic 
side we are already doing world living and we are 
rapidly waking up to the rest of the idea—that we 
must also do world thinking and world governing. 

We have spent a century building up a world 
trade and a world interdependence, until finally it 
has got to the point where not only our comfort, but 
actually our physical life depends upon continued ac- 


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cess to the sea and lands over sea. Witness Belgium, 
where, with access to the sea cut off, the population 
is saved from starvation only by the charity of 

governments and individuals working through the 
highly organized Belgian Relief, depending upon the 
future for its pay. 

Grant continued trade, as of 1913, and the popula¬ 
tion of our western world can yet increase several 
times over. But it all depends on access to the sea 
and sea trade. This means that access to the sea and 
peaceful trade is the greatest thing in the world, for 
upon analysis the object of everything is a chance to 
live, a chance to live a more abundant life. If one 
life is precious, ten lives are more so, ten million 
much more so, and one hundred million yet ten times 
more so. Block a people off from the sea and they 
perish. Two generations hence, with increased num¬ 
bers, they would perish even more quickly. Therefore, 
the preservation of the life of peoples and the utiliza¬ 
tion of this earth as the home of man depends upon 
the uninterrupted flow of goods across the sea, the 
world highway which connects the many parts of 
the world and makes it one. 


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A people should have no more question about their 
access to the sea than a man has about access to the 
street. And any particular nation should have no 
more control of the sea than a man has of the street. 

We thought this fine new thing, this world trade, 
was guaranteed by a set of precedents and gentle¬ 
men’s agreements that we called international law. 
It proved on test to be a mere scrap of paper. What 

next? Government, real government. The world 
must have one. The independence, the comfort, nay, 
the life of all depend upon it. 

The question now is, “Shall the ruling power be 
one nation acting with the irresponsible power of a 
dictator, or shall it be the better way, by agreement 
of several nations, acting through some kind of in¬ 
ternational government or super-state?” 

Government has been gaining ground of late; wit¬ 
ness the United States. In 1789 thirteen indepen¬ 
dent nations became one nation and peace has pre¬ 
vailed, save during the period of the Civil War, from 
1861 to 1865, when certain parties tried to break up 
the league by appealing to armies rather than to 
votes. Italy, which was recently a group of inde- 


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pendent kingdoms, has become one kingdom. Ger¬ 
many, a group of states of various sizes and kinds, 
has become one empire, a belated follower of France 
and of the United Kingdom in the process of unifi¬ 
cation. We need but one more step in the unifica¬ 
tion, and seven or eight powers can keep the peace 
in the world as easily as the United States keeps the 
peace among forty-eight States of this country. The 
Civil War, 1861-1865, was really a struggle to see 
whether the bullet method or the ballot method should 
prevail in this league of States. It was a war that 
settled something and settled it in favor of the more 
orderly method. 

For such a world government, for such a league of 
peace all constructive pacifists must resolve to fight 
just as they would fight defensively to save the or¬ 
ganization of their villages, their townships, their 
counties, and their States from anarchy. 

It is a peculiar fact that such a league of peace will 
be peaceful just as long as its members are resolutely 
warlike and not divided into nearly equal camps. 
The nation which is sure it has to fight the rest of 
the world will keep the peace. Hence the importance 


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of public opinion. If some strong nation is uncertain 
as to world opinion, it might be willing to undertake 
a war for its own ends. * * * Therefore the ob¬ 

ject of American public policy at this time should be 
to bring the world to such a condition that any nation 
starting a war unauthorized by the group would find 
itself the enemy of a world even more hostile than 
that in which Germany now finds herself. 

We must make an end of the right of national con¬ 
quest as we have made an end of the right of personal 
conquest—highway robbery. The little peoples, the 
small nations must be as safe as a lame man in Bos¬ 
ton, and the big ones must be as orderly as is a big 
potential bully on the streets of that city. As the 
lame man and the pugilist have equal access to the 
streets of Boston, so the land-locked peoples must, 
like the great peoples, have free and untaxed ac¬ 
cess to the all-important sea. 

The price to be paid for this Utopia is the reso¬ 
lute willingness to fight for it, to fight at the drop 
of the hat; that is to say, at the sending of an ulti¬ 
matum such as Austria sent to Serbia, threatening 
national war for national ends, without being author¬ 


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ized by a decision of court after investigations of 
the facts. Perhaps such an attempt to control so¬ 
ciety may result in one more great war. If so it, 
like our Civil War, will settle something. Such war 
can only occur if by calamitous cosmic accident the 
league should happen to divide along nearly equal 
lines. 

Who should oppose such a world organization? 
Only he who wants to gratify the lust of conquest. 
How does it fit the needs of Teuton, ally, and neu¬ 
tral? Take the Teuton. The league guarantees to 
fight him if he tries to conquer. To fight for him 
if some one tries to conquer him. It also guarantees 
him free and untaxed access to the sea. Under 

these conditions Germany has no more need of Hol¬ 
land and Belgium or Bulgaria than Canada has of 
New England in January, when her trade goes out 
through Boston and Portland, or than the United 

States has of Ontario and Quebec in June, when 
our trade goes so freely down the St. Lawrence. 

Grant such conditions and there is no excuse for 
a great German army, for “Deutschland Ueber 
Alles,” or for “Britannia Rules the Waves.” 
Deutschland could not be ueber Alles. Brittannia 


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could not rule the waves. The league would be 
over all and would rule the waves. Under such con¬ 
ditions the Germans could resume their plowing, 
their chemistry, their music, and their schools; so 
could the English and French, so could the neutrals. 
The little nation would no longer have to live under 
arms for fear of being eaten alive. Nor would they 
have to beg piteously for bread as giant combat 
closed the arteries of trade. 

All this is not so revolutionary as at first glance 
it may appear. One example will prove my point 
and also the next point—the proper treatment of the 
disorderly, the anarchistic. 

The examples of Haiti and San Domingo are most 
opportune. By the Monroe Doctrine they have been 
protected from foreign conquest. By the interven¬ 
tions of the United States forces they have been pro¬ 
tected from some of the extremes of internal disorder 
—private conquest from within. The so-called re¬ 
publics of Haiti and San Domingo have been through 
a course of treatment that is strikingly analogous 

to that of a delinquent family in any well-ordered 
municipality. They are excellent exhibits, as to 
method, for the world organizer. 


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The example of Haiti needs but to be extended to 
another hemisphere, made somewhat more judicial, 
and the small nation is protected from both conquest 
and chaos. It can go on with the great service of 
social experiment, and man, whether his country be 
big or little, can begin to live. 


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UNITY. 

People in different sections of every nation, realize 
that a more co-operative form of government for the 
world is imperative. 

Tennyson foresaw the existence of a united gov¬ 
ernment for the world, seventy-five years ago, when 
he said: 

“The war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags 
were furled 

In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 

“There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful 
realm in awe, 

And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapped in universal 
law.” 

President Wilson outlined my plan for world gov¬ 
ernment in his message to Russia. Speaking in 
reference to the time when peace shall have come 
between the nations at war, he said: 

“And then the free peoples of the world must draw 
together in some common covenant, some genuine 
and practical co-operation that will in effect combine 
their force to secure peace and justice in the dealings 
of nations with one another.” 

Some emphasis is necessary for a quick, clear com¬ 
prehension of what Mr. Wilson has said. Therefore 


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I ask that you consider the broad field that it covers. 
People must be drawn together first; and the draw¬ 
ing together must be in a common way, a way appli¬ 
cable to all nations; it must be in the form of a cove¬ 
nant. Second, it must be “genuine”; that is to say, 
that it cannot have anything but pure material in 
it. It must be solid on top, bottom, and sides, alike, 
and must not be hollow or chaffy. It must be in a form 
that can be put into immediate practice; it must 
be usable. It must be a co-operation in a practical 
measure, and it must be in such a form that the ef¬ 
fect of such co-operation will be an actual combining 
(uniting) of the force of all nations. Please take 
special notice of the phrase, “combine their force,” 
and you will see that this means more than just 
promises between nations; it means more than the 
adoption of half-way measures; it means more than 
just oaths of peace; it means more than the most 
binding contract to preserve peace that can be writ¬ 
ten. It means an actual combination of national 
forces; it means that the nations of the world must 
combine their very strength, including their law 
making force, their executive force, their army and 


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navy, their force from all sources to secure peace ana 
justice; and the securing of peace and justice, in this 
case, means that peace and justice will be preserved 
in the dealings of nations with one another. Mr. Wil¬ 
son’s words really mean all that I have defined them 
to mean, whether he intended them to or not. 

The nations of the world will have carried out the 
idea of a “genuine and practical co-operation,” so 
ably expressed by Mr. Wilson, when they shall have 

adopted the Constitution for the nations of the world, 
offered in this book. 

The Reichstag, which is the popularly elected par¬ 
liamentary body that represents all Germany, passed 
a peace resolution in which they said: 

“The Reichstag labors for peace and a mutual un¬ 
derstanding and lasting reconciliation among the na¬ 
tions. Forced acquisitions of territory and political, 
economic, and financial violations are incompatible 
with such a peace. 

“The Reichstag rejects all plans aiming at an 
economic blockade and the stirring up of enmity 
among the peoples after the war. The freedom of 
the seas must be assured. Only an economic peace 
can prepare the ground for the friendly association 
of the peoples. 


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“The Reichstag will energetically promote the cre¬ 
ation of international juridical organizations.’’ 

The chief object of this book is to promote an inter¬ 
national juridical organization. Therefore it is easy to 
see how nearly the Reichstag leaders are in line with 
this book on the subject of world government, when 
they say that “the Reichstag will energetically pro¬ 
mote the creation of international judicial organiza¬ 
tions.” 

Lord Northcliffe, the British high commissioner to 
the United States, said: 

“I have a strong conviction that with peace will 
come a close federation of the nations who are now 
fighting the great fight for freedom. * * * A 

close federation of the nations fighting the good fight 
will be the only insurance against the autocracy that 
made this war possible.” 

Many other noted men have expressed their real¬ 
ization of the necessity for some form of united gov¬ 
ernment for the world, but the number quoted is 

deemed sufficient to show that it is time for a defi¬ 
nite plan for such a government; and their testimony 
as quoted proves the fact that the plan offered in this 
book is the plan needed. 


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YOUTH. 


In entering upon life’s stairway, the youth comes 
into contact with certain events that mark a place of 
remembrance in his mind. Such events are personal 
in nature. It seems that they happen only for him. 
He does not take any thought about the welfare of 
other people affected by such events. The youth has 
a selfish nature, not because he desires to be so, but 
because he was born with the selfish disposition in his 
very nature. Sometimes you find one that never 
gets rid of his selfishness during his entire stay here 
on God’s foot-stool. There are others who gradually 
grow out of the youthful state by some process of 
education. 

Thus we have one in childhood, when he is inclined 
to give some consideration to the wants of his inti¬ 
mate friends. Then we see him in young manhood, 
when he is even more considerate of the desires of his 
friends, and of his neighbors. In middle age you see 
him looking out for a kind of a selfish welfare for his 
town or community. As he matures in manhood, he 
is inclined to consider the wants and needs of the 


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people in his state; then he comes to nave considera¬ 
tion for the people of his nation; and lastly, he reaches 
the old age state, when he unselfishly considers the 
wants, needs, and betterment of the people of the en¬ 
tire world, and pays due respect to the desires and 

needs of all nations. His personal selfishness has been 
transformed into a state of love. He has no national 
selfishness about him in this stage of life. All the 

selfishness which he possessed in youth has been 
eliminated. He has been born again. 

Now apply this parable of the youth to the nations 
of the world. The early childhood age represents the 
nation that is in the state of absolute selfishness, con¬ 
sidering only its own wants (not needs) and desires. 
The nation that has a very limited amount of respect 
for the rights of adjoining nations is in the youthful 
state. The nation that expresses its respect for the 
rights of adjoining nations by some form of treaty 
with them, when the real purpose of such treaty is 
to secure co-operation in gaining its own selfish ends, 
is in the state of young manhood. The nation is in 
the middle age state when it makes treaties with other 
nations, knowing, at the same time, that such treaties 
will not hinder it from declaring war. The nation 


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is in the state oi maturity that respects to a consider¬ 
able degree, the rights and needs of other nations, but 
forgets their rights and needs in the day that they do 
not comply with its wishes. The nation that has 
reached a ripe old age reserves no selfish right in its 
dealings with other nations, and seeks to prevent 
war. It will earnestly seek to establish a United gov¬ 
ernment for all nations. 

The parable of the youth is admirably expressed 
in a recent poem by Abbie Farwell Brown, called 
‘ ‘ The Statue. ’' 

“From war the king came riding 
With treasure all untold; 

With chariots and banners, 

And captives chained with gold. 

His young face flushed with triumph, 

His blue eyes blazed with pride. 

‘These slaves shall weld a statue 
Of my victory!’ he cried. 

“The conquered took their armor, 

Their brazen swords and spears, 

Their shields and battle-axes, 

And wrought with hate and tears. 

They forged a giant image 

Of the young king in his might, 

To frown above the city 
Upon a lordly height. 

“Now years passed in the kingdom; 

The statue stood unchanged. 

But the king grew older, calmer, 

And his ambition ranged. 

‘Come now, my master sculptor, 

Throw down the slave-wrought toy! 

I’d live in art more noble 
Than the triumph of a boy!’ 


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“The sculptor made his image 
In ivory and gold, 

Of lovely line and color, 

A marvel to behold. 

He set it in a temple 
With beauty all about, 

With walls and thorny hedges 
To keep the rabble out. 


“And still the king grew wiser 
As he waxed gray and grand. 

He stole into his temple 

When famine stalked the land. 
‘Unmake this selfish idol 
And give the gold,’ he said. 

‘Who worships art and beauty 
While children beg for bread?’ 

“He made a wooden figure, 

On the market place to stand, 

Of a king who blessed his people, 
Stretching out a generous hand. 
He gazed upon it fondly, 

For he said, ‘Lo, I shall be 
A memory for ever 
Of royal charity!’ 

“The king grew old and humble, 

And his heart was wise and good. 
He said, ‘I’ll have no statue 
Of bronze or gold or wood. 

Burn up this ugly image, 

This vain, self-vaunting thing! 
Why should I be remembered, 

Who made so poor a king?’ 

“Now after years of service 
The good king sweetly died, 
Mourned by a loving people 
Through all the countryside. 

He left no shrine or tablet, 

No effigy of art. 

He needed none; his image 
Was carved on every heart!” 


It is a sad fact that so few individuals or nations 
ever reach-this last stage of life. Some remain 


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youths, others young men, and still others in middle 
age, but thanks be to God, there is a larger percent¬ 
age of them reaching the highest stage of life today 
than ever before in the history of the world. 

When a nation is governed by the youthful spirit, 
it will most assuredly stand in the way of world-wide 
progress. It will cause the nations that are governed 
by the spirit of unselfishness and fairness, those who 
are in the good old age state, to become involved in 
disputes, which sometimes result in war. But it is 
a shame for a grown person to make war against a 
youth. So why not teach the youthful nation through 
united effort and government, as the parents teach 
their child? 

No individual or nation has any excuse that will 
justify them in remaining in the youthful stage of de¬ 
velopment in life, even though they be young in years. 
And any individual or nation refusing to accept the 
idea of united government for all nations of the 
world, is only a youth in development. 


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HOLIDAYS. 


Certain events occur in the history of every nation, 
that mean either joy or pain to all its citizens who are 
helping to promote and maintain high ideals for their 
nation. Only a few events will be mentioned here, 
that have meant joy to the peoples of the world, and 
to particular nations, as the progress wheel of hu¬ 
manity and civilization moved forward. 

A few events have happened, that gave cause for 
all nations to celebrate the anniversary of each as a 
holiday. One very important step up the ladder of 
civilization has been made by all nations, whose peo¬ 
ple celebrate, annually, the birth of the lowly Naz- 
arene. Then, indeed, has the nation attained an¬ 
other round up the ladder, whose people have an 
annual holiday in remembrance of the time, when 
our Saviour proved Iiis Divine Nature, and Sonship 
of God, by coming forth from the grave on the third 
day, as He had said He would do. 

Nearly every nation has one or more annual holi¬ 
days that commemorate what it considers the sig¬ 
nificant steps toward its ideal of civilization. 


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In my meditation this morning (Fourth of July, 
1917), after a peaceful night's sleep, I decided that 
my main reason for joining with the people of my 
nation in celebrating this annual holiday, was that 
it represents the idea of a free people governing 
themselves. 

The same sun that lights America, also lights Ger¬ 
many, Great Britain, France, Austria, Russia, and 
all the nations of the earth. It gives its warmth to 
the soil of each nation in proportion to the amount 
needed for the better production of materials. God 
is good to all humanity. He allows all nations to 
look upon the beauty of the heavens, the blue sky, 
the sun, the moon, the stars. God has so arranged 
the heavens, that they are united in rendering service 
to all the nations of the earth. The sun alone could 
not do all the work, neither could any part of the 
heavens perform such perfect service without the 
other parts. So it is with the nations of the earth. 
They should be united in order to be more efficient 
in rendering service to man. The nations should 
study more how to render service to man, and have 
fewer men rendering service and life for the nations. 


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The United Nations may be compared to the 
united heavens, the sun representing one nation, the 
moon another, and the stars the other nations, and in 
this case, each nation performs its duties in perfect 
harmony with all the others. 

When the nations of the earth join together in some 
genuine union for world government, it will be a 
long, Long, LONG step up the ladder of civilization, 
which will entitle us to a world-wide holiday in each 
year thereafter. 


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CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED 
NATIONS OF THE WORLD. 

PREAMBLE. 

We, the people of the United Nations, 
in order to establish justice, insure world 
tranquillity, provide for the common de¬ 
fense, promote the general welfare, and 
secure the blessings of lasting peace and 
liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do 
ordain and establish this Constitution for 
the United Nations of the World. 

ARTICLE I.—ORGANIZATION. 

SECTION 1.—ESTABLISHMENT. 

A Supreme Court shall be established 
for the United Nations of the World, and 
it shall be called the Supreme Court of the 
World, and shall consist of Judges elected 
by the several nations. 

SECTION 2—METHOD OF ELECTING JUDGES. 

The national law-making body of each 
nation shall assemble with the executive 
head of such nation acting as Chairman, 
and shall, by ballot, nominate, and elect, 


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in such manner as they shall see fit, the 

requisite number of judges, subject, how¬ 
ever, to the regulations of the Supreme 
Court in the second and all subsequent 
elections. 

SECTION 3—TERM OF OFFICE. 

Each Judge shall hold office for fifteen 
years, except as hereinafter provided, and 
unless he be convicted, by a vote of three- 
fourths of the Supreme Court, of trea¬ 
son, felony, or other misdemeanors, and 
be expelled by same. 

When vacancies occur in the Supreme 
Court, by any cause whatsoever, the na¬ 
tions entitled to other Judges, on account 
of such vacancies, shall proceed to elect 
same, to serve for the unexpired term 
only. Such Judges may be elected for 
a full term after serving the incomplete 
term, but no Judge shall be re-elected 
after serving a full term. 

SECTION 4.—NUMBER TO BE ELECTED. 

The number of Judges to be elected by 
Bach nation shall be apportioned accord¬ 
ing to the population thereof, not to ex- 


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leed one for every twenty million, but each 
nation shall have at least one Judge. 

The actual enumeration of the inhab¬ 
itants of each nation shall be made with¬ 
in five years after the first meeting of the 
Judges of the Supreme Court, and within 
every subsequent term of ten years, in 
such manner as the Supreme Court may 
direct. 

SECTION 5.—SUBSEQUENT ELECTIONS. 

Immediately after the Judges shall be 
assembled in consequence of the first elec¬ 
tion, they shall be divided as equally as 
may be into three classes. The seats of 
the Judges of the first class shall be va¬ 
cated at the expiration of the fifth year; 
of the second class, at the expiration of 
the tenth year; of the third class, at the 
expiration of the fifteenth year, so that 
one-third may be chosen every fifth year. 
The judges of the first and second classes 
may be re-elected to serve for a full term 
of fifteen years. 

SECTION 6—QUALIFICATIONS. 

No person shall be a judge of the Su¬ 
preme Court of the World who shall not 


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have attained the age of thirty years, and 
who shall not, when elected, be an inhabit¬ 
ant of the nation electing him. 

No person shall be a Judge of the Su¬ 
preme Court of the World, who shall be, 
at the time of election, connected by either 
birth or marriage, with a king, prince, 
kaiser, czar, emperor, president, or any 
person with like authority, over any na¬ 
tion of the world. But if, after being 
elected Judge of this Court, he shall then 
become connected with any of the above 
named rulers, by either birth or marriage, 
such connection shall not affect his office. 

SECTION 7.—OFFICERS OF THE COURT. 

The officers of this Court shall consist 
of a President, Vice President, Secretary 
of War, Secretary of the Court, Treasur¬ 
er, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 
Navy, and such other officers as the Court 
may deem necessary. These officers shall 
be selected by the Court, from among the 
Judges, and shall receive such compensa¬ 
tion for their services as the Court may 


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prescribe. A Chaplain shall also be elect¬ 
ed, who shall receive the same compensa¬ 
tion for his services as the President of 
the Court. The salaries of these officers, 
including the Chaplain, shall be paid at 
certain times provided by rulings of the 
Court, and they shall be paid out of the 
treasury of the Supreme Court of the 
World. 

The Supreme Court of the World shall 
prescribe the duties of all officers under it, 
and they shall obey its behest in regard to 
any of the business of the Court, except 
that the Court shall not have power to 
either increase or diminish the compensa¬ 
tion of such officers, during the term they 
were elected to serve. 

These officers shall not serve for a 
longer term than five years, except the 
Chaplain, who shall be elected for a term 
of two years, and may be re-elected to 
serve as long thereafter as the Court de¬ 
sires. 

SECTION 8—COMPENSATION OF JUDGES. 

The Judges of the Supreme Court of 
the World shall, at stated times, receive a 


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compensation for their services, which 
shall not diminish during their term of of¬ 
fice, and the said compensation is hereby 
fixed at fifteen thousand dollars per year. 
Any compensation which the Judges shall 
provide for the officers of the Court, shall 
be in addition to the said fifteen thousand 
dollars provided herein. 

The salaries of all the Judges shall be 
paid out of the treasury of the Supreme 
Court of the World, at such times, and in 
such manner, as may be prescribed by 
law. 

SECTION 9.—QUORUM. 

The majority of the whole number of 
Judges of the Supreme Court of the 
World, shall constitute a quorum to do 
business; but a smaller number may ad¬ 
journ from day to day, and may compel 
the attendance of absent Judges, in such 
manner, and under such penalties, as the 
Court may provide. 

SECTION 10—THE CHAPLAIN. 

No person shall be Chaplain who shall 
not have shown by his life and works that 


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he is a man chosen of God to carry out His 
work on earth. He shall be a man who in¬ 
spires the deepest confidence in his godli¬ 
ness, and one who speaks with authority 
concerning God’s will toward men. It 
shall be his duty to open and close all meet¬ 
ings of the Court with prayer, and he shall 
have at least fifteen minutes in the begin¬ 
ning of each meeting for the purpose of 
reading and commenting on God’s Word, 
which time he may or may not use, as he 
shall see fit. He shall especially seek to 
know God’s will concerning war between 
nations; and the Supreme Court shall not 
declare war against any nation, without 
first receiving the Chaplain’s opinion as to 
whether God favors such declaration or 
not; but he shall not advise the Court, on 
any question whatsoever, except as the 
Holy Spirit may direct. 

The Chaplain shall not have a vote on 
any question before the Court, unless the 
Court be equally divided, and in that case 
his vote shall decide the question. 


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ARTICLE II.—LEGISLATIVE 
POWERS. 

SECTION 1—PASSING LAWS. 

The Supreme Court of the World shall 
devise its own methods of passing laws, 
except, that it shall use committees to con¬ 
sider all bills, before such bills shall be 
presented to the Court. Such committees 
shall be appointed by the President of the 
Court, but not more than two Judges from 
the same nation shall serve on the same 
committee. A bill may be passed, and be¬ 
come a law, by a majority vote of the 
whole number of Judges in the Court. 

SECTION 2—RULES OF THE COURT. 

The Court may determine its rules of 
proceedings, punish its members for dis¬ 
orderly behavior, and, with the concur¬ 
rence of three-fourths, expel a member. 

The Court shall keep a journal of its 
proceedings, and from time to time pub¬ 
lish the same, excepting such parts as 
may, in the judgment of the Court, require 
secrecy; and the yeas and nays of mem- 


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bers on any question shall, at the desire 
of one-half of those present, be entered 
on the journal, except where controversies 
between nations are involved, and in such 
cases, the decisions made public shall be 
unanimous. 

SECTION 3.—POWERS GRANTED TO THE COURT. 

The Supreme Court of the World shall 
have power: 

To lay and collect taxes for its own ex¬ 
penses; and to provide for the common 
defense and general welfare of the United 
Nations; 

To provide an equitable system of taxa¬ 
tion so that each nation shall pay its pro¬ 
rata of taxes; 

To borrow money on the credit of the 
United Nations; 

To declare war, and make rules con¬ 
cerning captures on land and water; 

To raise and support armies, but no 
appropriation of money to that use shall 
be for a longer term than three years; 

• To provide and maintain a navy; 


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To make rules for the regulation of 
land and naval forces; 

To provide for calling forth the militia 
to execute the laws of the United Nations, 
suppress insurrections, and repel inva¬ 
sions ; 

To provide for organizing, arming, and 
disciplining the militia; 

To provide for the several nations a 
small militia for a police force, and shall 
allow each nation to appoint its own of¬ 
ficers, and to train the militia according 
to the discipline prescribed by the Su¬ 
preme Court; 

To exercise exclusive legislation in all 
cases whatsoever over such district (not 
exceeding an area equal to twenty miles 
square) as may, by cession of particular 
nations, and the acceptance of this Su¬ 
preme Court, become the seat of the Su¬ 
preme Court of the World, and to exer¬ 
cise like authority over all land and ma¬ 
terials belonging to the Supreme Court 
of the World; 


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To exercise exclusive legislation over all 
waters, except such waters as may be in¬ 
cluded within a radius of one mile from 
the margin of all lands next the sea; 

To make all laws which shall be neces¬ 
sary and proper for carrying into execu¬ 
tion the foregoing powers, and all other 
powers, vested in the Supreme Court by 
this Constitution. 

SECTION 4—POWERS FORBIDDEN TO THE COURT. 

No preference shall be given one port, or 
nation, over another by any regulation of 
commerce. 

No tax or duty shall be laid on any 
article exported from, or imported into, 
any nation. 

No bill of attainder or ex-post-facto law 
shall be passed. 

No money shall be drawn from the 
treasury but in consequence of appropria¬ 
tions made by law; and a regular state¬ 
ment and account of the receipts and ex¬ 
penditures of all public money shall be 
published from time to time. 


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No title of nobility shall be granted by 
the Supreme Court; and no person holding 
any office of profit or trust under it or for 
it, shall, without the consent of the Court, 
accept of any present, emolument, office, 
or title, of any kind whatever, from any 
king, prince, president, corporation, or 
nation. 

No law shall be passed interfering with 
the internal government of any nation, 
except those mentioned in this Constitu¬ 
tion. 

SECTION 5.—POWERS FORBIDDEN TO THE 

NATIONS. 

No nation shall enter into any treaty, 
alliance, or confederation, or pass laws 
impairing this Constitution. 

No nation shall teach military training 
in its public schools, neither shall it allow 
such training to be taught in its private 
schools, or other institutions of learning. 

No nation shall, in time of peace, with¬ 
out the consent of the Supreme Court, 
keep troops, ships-of-war, enter into any 
agreement or compact with any nation, 


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or engage in war, unless actually invaded, 
or in such imminent danger as will not 
admit of delay. 

No nation shall question the authority 
of this Supreme Court, or allow its citi¬ 
zens to criticise the rulings of the Court 
(so long as the Court remains within the 
limits of this Constitution), until ten full 
years shall have passed, after the ratifi¬ 
cation of this Constitution, by such nation. 

No nation shall allow any of its citizens, 
or any person under its jurisdiction, to 
advocate severing its relations with this 
Supreme Court, until ten full years shall 
have passed. After ten full years shall 
have passed, such nation may consider 
severing relations with this Union, and 
may, if two-thirds of its law-making body 
so desire, declare its intention of severing 
such relations. Such nation shall then al¬ 
low its citizens (including all persons 
twenty-one years of age and over) to vote 
on the question of withdrawing (All 
speakers advocating the severance of re- 


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lations with this Union, must read this 
Constitution, or have it read, slowly, 
clearly, and in the language of the people 
to whom it is being read, to every assem¬ 
bly addressed by such speakers, and at 
the time of such speaking) ; and if the 
majority vote to sever relations, then the 
Supreme Court shall issue a proclamation 
declaring that such nation is no longer un¬ 
der the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. 
No nation shall attempt to raise an army 
or navy, before such proclamation shall 
have been issued by the Supreme Court. 

ARTICLE III.—EXECUTIVE 
POWERS. 

SECTION 1.—COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 

The executive power shall be vested in 
the Supreme Court of the World, and a 
Commander-in-chief of the Army and 
Navy, under it. 

The Commander-in-chief shall hold his 
office during a term of five years, unless 
he be removed by the Supreme Court, for 
incompetence, disorderly conduct, failure 


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to execute his duty, or in cases where the 
United Nations shall be forced to use arms 
against the nation from which the Com- 
mander-in-chief came; and in this case, 
his term of office shall automatically ex¬ 
pire when war is declared against such 
nation. The Commander-in-chief shall 
have power to require a statement in writ¬ 
ing from any officer under him, in regard 
to any question pertaining to his office. 

His duties shall be prescribed by the Su¬ 
preme Court of the World, and he shall 
take the following oath or affirmation be¬ 
fore entering into his duties: “I do sol¬ 
emnly swear (or affirm) that I will faith¬ 
fully execute the office of Commander-in- 
chief of the Army and Navy of the United 
Nations of the World, and will, to the best 
of my ability, preserve, protect, and de¬ 
fend this Constitution of the United Na¬ 
tions of the World.” 

ARTICLE IV.—JUDICIAL POWERS. 

SECTION 1—UNITED NATIONS’ COURT. 

The judicial power of the United Na¬ 
tions shall be vested in the Supreme Court 


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of the World, and the jurisdiction of this 
Court shall extend: 

To all law and equity arising under this 
Constitution; 

To all cases arising between nations, 
when one or more of the nations involved 
shall be a member of this Union. 

SECTION 2—METHOD OF DECISION. 

The Supreme Court of the World shall 
prescribe the manner in which all contro¬ 
versies between nations shall be tried, and 
how such nations may submit their rea- 
sons for their contentions in the matter to 
the Court. 

The decisions of the Supreme Court of 
the World, on all controversies between 
nations, shall be made in private, not al¬ 
lowing any person other than the Judges 
and Chaplain of the Court, to be present 
during the discussion or voting period of 
the Judges on such controversies. 

The Court shall vote twice on all contro¬ 
versies between nations, in cases where 


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the first vote was not unanimous: Those 
who were in the majority in the first case, 
shall vote the same way in the second case; 
and those in the minority in the first case, 
shall vote with the majority in the second 
case, thus making the decision of the 
Court unanimous. 

ARTICLE V.—RELATIONS OF THE 
NATIONS TO EACH OTHER. 

SECTION 1.—OFFICIAL ACTS. 

Full faith and credit shall be given in 
each nation to the public acts, records, and 
judicial proceedings of every other nation. 
And the Supreme Court of the World may 
by general laws, prescribe the manner in 
which such acts, records, and proceedings 
shall be proved, and the effect thereof. 

SECTION 2.—FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE. 

A person charged in any nation with 
treason, felony, or other crime, shall, on 
demand of the executive authority of the 
nation from which he fled, be delivered up, 
to be removed to the nation having juris¬ 
diction of the crime. 


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SECTION 3.—ADMISSION OF OTHER NATIONS. 

Other nations may be admitted into this 
Union by the Supreme Court, and the Su¬ 
preme Court shall make all necessary 
rules and regulations as to the method by 
which such nations may be admitted. 

SECTION 4—PROTECTION OF NATIONS. 

The Supreme Court of the World shall 
protect each nation in this Union against 
invasion, and shall, upon application of 
the law making body, or of the executive 
head of such nation (when the law mak¬ 
ing body cannot convene), against domes¬ 
tic violence. 

ARTICLE VI.—GENERAL PRO¬ 
VISIONS. 

SECTION 1.—AMENDMENTS. 

The Supreme Court may propose 
amendments to this Constitution when 
two-thirds of the Judges deem it neces¬ 
sary and such amendments shall be ef¬ 
fective when ratified by two-thirds of the 
nations in this Union. 

Two-thirds of the Nations in this Union 
may propose amendments to this Consti- 


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tution when they shall deem it necessary, 
and such proposed amendments shall be in 

effect after two-thirds of the Judges of the 
Supreme Court shall approve of such 
amendments. 

SECTION 2.—THIS CONSTITUTION. 

This Constitution, and the laws of the 
United Nations which shall be made in 
pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, 
or which shall be made, under the author¬ 
ity of the United Nations, shall be the 
supreme law of the land and sea; and the 
Judges in every nation shall be bound 
thereby, anything in the Constitution or 
laws of any nation to the contrary not¬ 
withstanding. 

The members of the law making body 
of each nation, and all executive and ju¬ 
dicial officers, both of the United Nations 
and of the several nations, shall be bound 
by oath or affirmation to support this Con¬ 
stitution; but no religious test shall ever 
be required as a qualification to any of- 


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fice or public trust under the United Na¬ 
tions. 

Nothing in this Constitution shall be so 
construed as to prejudice any claims of 
the Supreme Court of the World, or of 
any particular nation. 

SECTION 3—DISMISSION OF ARMIES AND NAVIES. 

Each nation shall, on a date set by the 
Supreme Court of the World, give each 
of its soldiers an honorable discharge 
from his respective position. 

SECTION 4—TRANSFER OF ARMS. 

The act of ratifying this Constitution 
by any nation automatically transfers all 
of such nation’s war materials, including 
war vessels of every kind, war aeroplanes, 
guns, munitions, and all munition and 
gun factories except those exempted by 
the Supreme Court for domestic use, to 
the United Nations. All such materials 
shall be transferred to the Union without 
cost or remuneration of any kind, and 
shall be under the full and complete con¬ 
trol of the Supreme Court of the World. 

The Supreme Court shall allow such 
nation to retain, for a police force, such of 


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these materials as the Court shall deem 
absolutely necessary and expedient. 

SECTION 5.—MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNION. 

The combined forces of the army and 
navy, in time of peace, shall not exceed 
one million men. 

The United Nations shall, in time of 
war, and in time of peace, raise its army 
and navy exclusively by the volunteer sys¬ 
tem. 

SECTION 6.—PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS. 

The Judges of the Supreme Court of the 
World shall not participate in any way 
whatever, in any election held in any na¬ 
tion. 

SECTION 7—PRIVILEGES OF THE JUDGES. 

The Judges shall in all cases, except 
treason, felony, and breach of the peace, 
be privileged from arrest during their at¬ 
tendance at the session of the Court, and 
in going to and in coming from the same; 
and for any speech or debate in and dur¬ 
ing the sessions of the Court, they shall 
not be questioned in any other place. 


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SECTION 8—TREASON. 


Treason against the United Nations 
shall consist only in levying war against 
them, or in adhering to their enemies, 
giving them aid and comfort. 

No person shall be convicted of treason 
unless on the testimony of two witnesses 
to the same overt act, or on confesison in 
open Court. 

The Supreme Court shall have power to 
declare the punishment of treason, but no 
attainder of treason shall work corruption 
of blood, or forfeiture, except during the 
life of the person attainted. 

SECTION 9—PUBLICATION. 

The Supreme Court of the World shall 
elect three committeemen, not from 
among the Judges, for the purpose of 
writing an explanation of this Constitu¬ 
tion ; and upon approval of such explana¬ 
tion by the Court, this Constitution, to¬ 
gether with such explanation, shall be 
published in book form, and shall become 
a text-book to be taught in all the public 


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schools of every nation in this Union. Such 
committee shall be appointed during the 
first year of the Court, and they shall re¬ 
ceive such compensation for their services 
as the Court may prescribe. 

ARTICLE VII.—RATIFICATION 
OF THIS CONSTITUTION. 

The ratification of this Constitution by 
five nations shall be sufficient for the 
establishment of this Constitution be¬ 
tween the nations so ratifying the same. 


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FACTS. 


The population of the entire world is approxi¬ 
mately 1,750,000,000. 

The appropriations made by the United States 
alone, for war purposes for the first year of war, 
have reached the enormous figure of $10,000,000,- 
000. This is about $5.70 for every inhabitant of the 
globe, while it is about $100.00 for every man, wom¬ 
an and child in the United States. 

$1,500,000 about represents the resources of the 
average national bank in the United States. Now 
conceive of 17,585 of these banks in one row, and 
you will get the relative size of the sum Great 
Britain alone has spent during its first three years 
of war, for war purposes. This is $15.07 for every 
person in the world. Now take the total sum of $26,- 
378,000,000 and divide it by the total population of 
England, and you will find that it is $586 for every 
man, woman, and child in the United Kingdom. 

These figures are quoted to show the wisdom, from 
a business viewpoint, of having peace. These figures 
ought to aid you in deciding to contribute gladly, to 


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the promotion of this Constitution for the United 
Nations of the World. 

It is true that one nation cannot afford to quit fight¬ 
ing now until it can secure a partial settlement of the 
wrongs done by other nations, and an honorable 
peace. But they can all unite, and quit fighting, hon¬ 
orably, and secure a peace that will last.. 


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PATRIOTS. 


The true patriot is one who loves his country, hu¬ 
manity, the world. His love is a godly love. His love 
is God living in the hearts of humanity. He works 
to save his country, and the world, from all evil, and 
to promote the general welfare of all. He loves hu¬ 
manity as Christ did. He is not prejudiced against 
any person because that person does not live in his 
neighborhood. He knows that he cannot live in all the 
countries, and that all the people of the world can¬ 
not live in his country. He knows that God permit¬ 
ted each individual to be born into the world for some 
specific purpose, and that God expects him to respect 
the mission of every individual, no matter what may 
be the nature of that mission, or where his native 
land is found. He knows that if it were not for the 
work of others, many developments of the world 
would be unthought of. He does not think that the 
people of other nations are void of life, and that their 
life does not mean joy and happiness to them, and 
that it is no wrong to destroy them. He loves their 
welfare. He is a citizen of God's earth. He is like 
the poet who said: 


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“Where is the true man’s fatherland? 

Is it by chance where he is born? 

Does not the true man’s spirit scorn 
In such scant borders to be spanned?” 

The untrue patriot belongs to the devil. He is low 
and degrading. He seeks to destroy human confi¬ 
dence, and godly love. He pretends to aid a good 
cause, but in reality he is trying to divert it so that 
it will do no good. He works hard to prevent any¬ 
thing from being done toward higher ideals. He 
teaches his nation to be treacherous in its dealings 
with other nations. He is bitterly opposed to uniting 
for the common good of all. His sole idea of patriot¬ 
ism is based on the use of the gun and sword. He 
creates enmity among men, and among nations. He 
cannot realize that others have an equal right with 
him to live on God's earth. He is the devil beguiling 
men. 

Let us leave this discouraging picture of the un¬ 
true patriot, and look upon the true one, as pictured 
in the following poem: 

“And then I saw a man all bent with years, 

Who had seen birth and death, and joy and tears; 

And he toiled in the slums—a crowded place. 

‘My work,’ he said, ‘is with the human race; 

To make them better women, better men; 

To make good citizens of bitter ones; 

To make them ask for peace, not swords and guns, 

And when they have the peace, to keep it. Then 

To make them worship God, and love each other; 

To be their helper, friend, adviser, brother. 

This is my work!’ 

Ah, he was bent with years, 

And he knew death and life, and joy and tears.” 


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BIBLE VERSES ABOUT PEACE 
APPLIED TO NATIONS. 


“And let the peace of Cod rule in your hearts, to 
the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye 
thankful.” Col. 3:15. 

And let the peace of God rule all nations, for they 
are called in one body; and let them be thankful. 

“For kings, and for all that are in authority; that 
we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness 
and honesty.” 1 Tim. 2:2. 

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that 
all nations may lead a quiet and peaceful life. 

“And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie 
down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will 
rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the 
sword go through your land.” Lev. 26:6. 

And I will give peace to all nations, and they shall 
lie down, and none shall make them afraid: I will 
rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the 
sword go through any nation. 

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be 
called the children of God.” Matt. 5:9. 


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Blessed are the nations who are peacemakers: for 
they shall be called the nations of God. 

“Let us therefore follow after the things which 
make for peace, and the things wherewith one may 
edify another/’ Rom. 14:19. 

Let the nations therefore follow after the things 
which make for peace, and things wherewith one na¬ 
tion may edify another. 

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, 
good will toward men.” Luke 2 :14. 

Glory to God in the highest, and in every nation 
peace, good will toward all nations. 

“And be at peace among yourselves.” I Thes. 5:13. 

And all ye nations, be at peace among yourselves. 

“Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek 
peace, and ensue it.” I Pet. 3:11. 

Let the nations avoid evil, and do good; let each 
nation of the earth seek peace, and keep it. 


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WAR. 


The annual Council Meeting of the Workers of 
Iniquity was held in 1917, with a full representation 
of all the evils. Mr. War was elected Chairman of 
the meeting. The reports showed great progress in 
all their undertakings, and good prospects for even 
greater work in the future. Mr. War was congratu¬ 
lated by all members as the hero of the day, but the 
Angels of God saw that Mr. War was getting old and 
gray-headed, and was on his way to exhaustion. 

^ 

The annual Council Meeting of the Workers of 
Iniquity convened in 1919, with not more than half 
the evils represented. 

“I move that we unanimously call our great hero, 
Mr. War, to act as Chairman as usual,'” one of the 
evils said. 

“Mr. War is dead,” replied another evil. 

“When did he die?” 

“Why, he died shortly after our meeting in 1918.” 

“Well! How did he die? What killed him?” 

“He died when that blasted old Constitution for 
world government was adopted.” 


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PEACE. 

Mr. War and Mr. Peace were both candidates for 
the office of World Control in 1914. Mr. War was 
elected, and Mr. Peace retired. 

& 

On account of the death of Mr. War in 1918, Mr. 
Peace was the only candidate for the office of World 
Control in 1919. He was elected unanimously by 
all nations, and assured that he would never have 
another opponent, by the adoption of the Constitution 
for the government of the United Nations of the 
World. 


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“Blessed are the Peacemakers: for they shall be called 
the children of God." 


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